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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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* <strong>The</strong> au<strong>the</strong>nticity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Second Epistle <strong>of</strong> St.<br />

Peter is here taken for granted, but <strong>the</strong> drift <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

arp^ment would be <strong>the</strong> same, to whatever<br />

authorship it be ascribed.<br />

* Weus (Matthius-Evang. p. 372) sees ag^oss<br />

contradiction between what seems impUed as to<br />

His original purpose <strong>and</strong> Hk walking on <strong>the</strong> sea,<br />

<strong>and</strong> hence rejects<br />

<strong>the</strong> narrative. Such arc <strong>the</strong> assumptions <strong>of</strong> negative<br />

criticism. But it seems for* gotten that, according<br />

to St. Matt. ziv. 24, <strong>the</strong> journey seems at tirst to<br />

have been fairly prosperous.<br />

' Weiss (n. s.) certainly argues on <strong>the</strong> impossibility<br />

<strong>of</strong> His having seen <strong>the</strong> boaft so far out on <strong>the</strong> Lake.<br />

it must surely have been forgotten that <strong>the</strong> scene is<br />

laid quite shortly CHAP. before <strong>the</strong> Passover (<strong>the</strong><br />

15th <strong>of</strong> Nisan), when, <strong>of</strong> course, <strong>the</strong> moon J^^^^^<br />

would shine on an unclouded sky, all <strong>the</strong> more<br />

brightly on a windy spring-night, <strong>and</strong> light up <strong>the</strong>

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